US20160182956A1

US20160182956A1 - Method of providing service for recommending game video

Info

Publication number: US20160182956A1
Application number: US14/616,433
Authority: US
Inventors: Taewoo Kim; Dong Hwal Lee
Original assignee: Minkonet Corp
Current assignee: Stoic Entertainment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2014-12-18
Filing date: 2015-02-06
Publication date: 2016-06-23
Also published as: KR101604250B1; US10123081B2

Abstract

It is distinguished that, to achieve the purpose above, the game video recommendation service in this invention is provided through the following phases in presenting the service of recommending to a game user another user's' game video: (a) the phase where, based on the object information including 3D shape information of the characters, props and backgrounds constituting game videos, the script information is saved in the video server for form a video list for game play video rendering, which records data on the appearance and disappearance points of time of characters, props and backgrounds included in the above-mentioned object information as well as their movements according to time; (b) the phase where users' in-game failures are detected and sent by the above game device the server; (c) the phase where the video lists saved in the said server are searched and videos (failure videos) including the fore-said failure situations or success videos resolving such situations are extracted; (d) the phase where a message recommending the failure video or success video searched in the previous (c) process (recommendation message) is sent to the game device that has sent the corresponding failure situation; and (e) the phase where the recommendation message of the (d) process is displayed on the device.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims the priority and benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2014-0183215, filed on Dec. 18, 2014, with the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated in its entirety herein by reference.

BACKGROUND

The invention is on the method of providing services for game video recommendation. More specifically, it is about a method to collect game users' game playing video, save them in a server and recommend to users potentially interested in such a video.
Recently, web users have become able to view and replay videos in diverse areas through video service providing systems such as Youtube. Also, as smart phones, tablet PCs, etc. have become popularized, mobile device-based games have increased beyond those solely for personal computers or exclusive game consoles and their uses have also expanded. Accordingly, more and more users upload their own game play videos on video service sites or watch other players' uploaded videos to enjoy games.
Previously the typical way of generating a game video was to capture real-time images displayed on terminal screen and save them as a video file which is the collection of consecutive image frames. Since such a method imposes much load on the operation equipment of game console, it often interrupted or slowed game play. Some conventional methods intentionally decreased the picture quality of video to lighten the load on the operation equipment of game console for record. If a low-resolution device was used to record a video, such a video, when played with another device, provided poorer picture quality and diminished user interest.
Unless a user additionally keys in the type of game or related specific situation to explain a video saved in the video provision server, viewers cannot recognize the type of game or situation just by watching the video. Such a difficulty also obstructed proactive recommendation service of desired videos to game users.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A method of providing recommendations to a game user of another user's game play video, comprising:

(a) to make possible the rendering of a game play video by using the object information which includes the 3D shape data of characters, props and backgrounds consisting the game video, the phase where script information is saved in the above-mentioned video server to establish a video list, which records the data on characters, props, background appearance or disappearance time points included in the fore-mentioned object information and moves of such characters, props, background appearance or disappearance time points;

(b) the phase where a situation is detected when the user plays the game with a game device and fails to resolve a game task and such a detected failure situation is transmitted from the game device to the video server;

(c) the phase where the video list stored in the server is searched to extract videos including such a failure situation (failure video) or its resolution process (success video);

(d) the phase where a message recommending the failure video or success video found out in the (c) process above (recommendation message) is sent to the initial failure situation-sending device; and

(e) the method of providing game video recommendations with the feature to display the recommendation message in the (d) process on the device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(f) the phase where, if the user chooses to watch the failure or success video by looking at the displayed message on the device in the (e) proves, the video server sends the corresponding failure or success video script information to the game device; and

(g) the method of providing game video recommendations with the feature to include the phase where the game device connects the received script information from the server with the object information already stored in the device to replay the recommended failure or success video.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

(h) the method of providing game video recommendations with the feature to include the phase where the server stores the script information of the video list which has been modified to add an object displaying advertisement on the video-list script information (ad object) or substitute part of the existing objects with the ad object as well as the phase where the ad object data are sent to the game device additionally so that the server connects the ad objects with the script information to replay the recommended video in the (f) process.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(i) the place where, while the user plays the game with the device, its script information is saved in the game device;

(j) the place where the user's transmission order is received and the script information saved in the game device is sent to the server; and

(k) the method of providing game video recommendations with the feature to include the phase where the server receives the script info of the (j) process and renews the video list of the (a) process.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the method of providing game video recommendations with the feature to include the script information that additionally contains filming information to set up a camera location, movement, zoom level and replay speed to film the objects appearing and moving according to the script info

(l) the method of providing game video recommendations with the feature to include the phase where replay and edition tools are provided which can edit the filming information of the script information of the game device; and the phase (j) with the feature to send the edited script information by the user with the editing tools above to the server.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein (m) the method of providing game video recommendations with the feature to include the phase where the game device receives the script info on a specific video of the video list from the server; and the phase (j) with the feature to send the video server the script info edited and modified by the user with the replay and edition tools above, which was received by the device in the (n) process.